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Re: An unsaid - yet widely accepted - code in the field of judiciary is th
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17 Nov 2017, 01:48

An unsaid - yet widely accepted - code in the field of judiciary is that it is as unjust to punish a person who is innocent as it is to free a person who is guilty

A. it is to free a person who is (Correct)B. is is freeing a person who is ('Freeing' is not parallel with 'to punish a person')C. freeing a person who is (Same as B)D. freeing(Same as B)E. it is to free a('Who is' missing in the second part of comparison)_________________

The way you have constructed ("As unjust to x as it is to y") indicates a loss of parallelism (there is no "it is" in the first part). However this is not the case. A is indeed the correct answer and one may check the validity of parallelism in the following way:

Note that both the "it"s in the sentence act as placeholders. The sentence can be effectively simplified in the following way:

it is as unjust to punish a person who is innocent as it is to free a person who is guilty=It To punish a person who is innocent is as unjust as it to free a person who is guilty is .= X (to punish...) is an unjust as Y (to free...).